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Originally Posted by numbskull
Yup.
Bait is for when you are learning to catch large fish and plugs for when you know how to catch large fish.
A time and place for everything.
Eels, of course, are for those who are really bad learners.
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Originally Posted by Poncho
A very dumb statment from a very smart man. numbskull we have a mutal friend from this site who tells me you are a smart man and a good fisherman but I highly disagree with your statment
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I fish bait the majority of the time and I would say numbskull has it right.
Every fish I’ve caught from the surf that was over 30# has come on some form of bait (live eels, rigged eels, or fresh bunker chunks). I have come close to breaking the 30# mark quite a few times with artificials (mainly on jigs) but it hasn’t happened yet.
As someone who still has a lot to learn I focus my time on trying to figure out when and where big fish are going to be available and fishing bait gives me a much better chance of connecting with a large fish if they are in the area. Fishing this way I have figured out a couple of areas that under specific conditions have a pretty good chance of holding bigger fish. If I hadn’t put in countless hours fishing these areas with bait (eels and riggies mainly) and logging my results I doubt I would have figured them out.
I really don’t though know if I’ll ever get to the point where I will choose to fish these same spots under ideal conditions with plugs… I do enjoy fishing plugs, I’ve always loved darters and I’m really starting to like the big plugs like GRS Pikies but most of the time when I’m throwing them I’m wondering what I am missing on by not having an eel or a riggie on my line… I do have a lot of confidence in jigs and if I am going to land a good fish on an artificial I’m willing to bet that it will come fishing an inlet with some king of jig.
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